supplement

Newly Approved General-Use Kanji

In spring of 2010, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology announced the addition of 196 kanji to the 1,945 characters of the list of general-use kanji approved in 1981. Of these, 39 are already included in the present volume:

24 534 1108 1755

30 553 1210 1904

153 603 1264 1943

411 727 1294 1950

437 776 1417 1961

462 777 1420 1979

472 870 1514 1990

501 907 1599 1999

514 1031 1647 2003

520 1094 1718

Of the remaining kanji, 134 appear in the third volume of this series, Remembering the Kanji: Writing and Reading Japanese Characters for Upper-Level Proficiency. That leaves 23 new characters to round off the list. The 6 lessons that follow will cover all 157 characters not treated in the previous lessons. In order to preserve the numbering in Vols. 2 and 3, and at the same time to indicate the best context for learning, each frame will be assigned a number followed by a letter. Thus, for example, 1382a will send you to Lesson 36, where the last of the primitive elements needed to compose the kanji has been learned. Kanji included here that have appeared in Vol. 3 have their respective frame number given in curly brackets to the right. A number of the supplementary kanji published by the Ministry use old forms of primitive elements or their compounds. While the trend has been to unify the writing of these elements, it will take time for unicode numbers to be assigned to the simpler forms and for font-makers to catch up. This leaves certain inconsistencies in the updated list. In the long run there is no need for you to learn the older forms, which will often go against the grain of how you have been learning the kanji in this book. For those who want them, the olderand for the time being approvedforms are given in square brackets, along with an explanation of differences from the simplified form. For those who have already completed the previous 56 lessons, there is no need to follow these frames in order, one after the other. Feel free to study them in any order you please. Otherwise, it is best to cross-reference this list to the text of your book and study them in proper sequence. Meantime a new edition of the Remembering the Kanji books is being prepared with new numbering.

Lesson 57
We begin with the 19 characters whose primitive elements were introduced in Part One. A complete story will be provided, as well as an occasional comment to clarify the connotation of a key word.

with Insteadofof the familiar grease we usually associatepart of the elbow someone hard at work, the kanji gives us a the body that has been glued to its task. [7]

45a

{2464}

elbow

52a
{2155}

derision

The bad feeling created by words spoken in derision often leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the one who speaks them, kind of like the foul aftertaste that follows a night before of too much of the wrong stuffor what we call morning mouth. [15]

a lot of if ones popular. Thereisisdepictedmoneyastoa be madeof clamssongs are out of the This here stream spewing mouth of someone performing a pop song. [10]

54a

{2178}

pop song

word frame has do with posting to a The keyIn this in thisthe billboard is standing atbills exit bill board. case, the to a Chinese restaurant displaying the latest alternative to the traditional fortune-telling cookies. Look closely and you will see rows of leftover shells of clams with little slips of paper sticking out of them posted to the billboard.[12]

56a

{2736}

post a bill

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reason, inventor of a curse For somemouth of the older brother.this kanji associateddecide if with the an I leave it to you to he is on the giving or receiving end of the sorcery. [8]

103a

{2169}

curse

117a
{2195}

jealous

It should not be hard to leap from the key word to the image of a woman who is jealous of the rock that another woman is sporting on the third finger of her left hand. [8]

advertisements H You have seen those scratch-n-sniffthat replaces one for per fumes. This one is for a mouthwash stinking odor with another. [12]

122a

sniff

The [] only difference between the old and simplified forms is the addition of a single dot transforming our St. Bernard dog into a little chihuahua.
{2466}

your flesh Dig intoand watch aand pull out a lymph gland. Now give it a squeeze spring of lymph spout out of it. [13]

133a

gland

138a
{2327}

pan-

The sense of the key word here is the all-inclusive we find in terms like Pan-American Games. (It is also the character used

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in mathematics for partial as in partial differentials, in case you are a math major and want to take your story in that direction.) Instead of a water sports event that brings together the best talent, think of a meet of the regions most mediocre athletes, many of whom cannot even tread water. Now try to find a sponsor for the Pan-Mediocre Water Sports Competition. [6]

139a
{2316}

cleanse

This character can mean both to cleanse and to make dirty. We will choose the latter and imagine someone who is displeasingly plump going to a skinny spa whose medicinal waters promise to cleanse him of his unwanted corpulence. Picture him sitting in the spa as the pounds melt away, leaving a greasy scum on top of the water. [7]

140a
{2296}

grains of sand

We have already learned the kanji for sand (frame 117), so lets use it to remember the character for grains of sand. Instead of the few stones that make for nice sand, here we have a few drops of water, one for each grain of sanda beach in perfect ecological balance. [7]

154a
{2190}

inlay

When we hear the word inlay, we usually think of setting precious stones in pieces of jewelery, but the primitive elements here suggest truth being inlaid in the soil. You might think instead of the cosmic wisdom that inlaid the truth of the universe in the stuff of the earth. [13]

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205a

{2480}

chair

Instead of making a chair out of wood from a tree, this kanji has us making the whole tree into a chair, which looks most strange sitting in your living room where the sofa used to be. [12]

Thedawned on. Be ideasto give thethat the sun of reason has not most obscure sure are those sun a professorial demeanor, yet
complete with spectacles and a pipe. [9]

216a

{2445}

obscure

225a
{2373}

bullying

A nosegay of flowers make a nice gift, but if those flowers are poison oak, they can amount to bullying. Be sure to emphasize the word can when you repeat this little phrase to yourself. [8]

252a
{2071}

spinal column

Two. . . umbrella . . . two . . . flesh. [10] The pair of 2s is introduced in Vol. 3 as a primitive element meaning the I Ching.

Toys R Us, then the ball If, at some aboriginal level,the beginning, beforearchetypal into must have been there at evolving beach balls, ping-pong balls, rugby balls, and marbles. [8]

259a

{2567}

toy

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The radiant, effulgent splendor sun all the planets and other stars. Just of the sure makes it king ofthis to be you dont take

260a

{2450}

effulgent

too abstractly, picture the sun seated on a throne, flourishing its scepter this way and that. [8]

Lesson 58
The next 22 kanji (4 of them new characters not covered in Vol. 3) make use of primitive elements introduced in Part Two. Although full stories will mostly be abbreviated to their plots, the frame number will direct you to the proper context for learning them. Note that none of the new primitive elements introduced in Vol. 3 will be used here, though mention of them will be made on first appearance. There is one case in which a previously learned primitive shows up in this supplementary list as a character in its own right. (frame 404a).

I Peoplenoisy racket.soundopen their mouth and soundingalike so who try to They literary often end up out rolls whole much
truckers convoy of metaphors. [12]

289a

metaphor

[]

Three small the old one. Thedetails distinguish umbrellaform from the simplified second line of the extends slightly to the left; the middle strokes of moon are skewered, and the final two strokes of the kanji are bent in the middle rather than straight.

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Thinkofof roasting the guest of honor at a partyliterally, in front an oven-fire. [13]

290a

{2548}

roast

Shells . . . each. [13]
300a
{2841}

292a

{2738}

graft

Hades

The key word in this frame refers to the underworld, the world of the dead. By way of the classic Greek association, it is also used for the dwarf planet Pluto. Since no one knows precisely when this part of the cosmos was finished, we may imagine it as the crowning deed of day six of the creation. [10]

Think of elucidating as presenting something in whole words, as distinct from broken, fragmented sentences. [13]
337a
{2717}

elucidate

Thethe deceased. [9] words of this obituary work like a magic wand, conjuring up
339a

obituary

If you shouldthinkbe hard to imagine them asdisagreeable relatives, it not of a parade of particularly large bodies with little pea-brains above. [11]

360a

{2882}

relatives

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who do not deserve The verbal abuse involved in reviling thosefull boom having an it can be compared to a march of flowers in eyeball of nastiness cast on them (literally, of course).[14]

366a

{2390}

revile

presented The golden key you have beenthe city. [17]by the mayor gives you access to all the buildings in

391a

{2761}

key

404a
{2101}

towel

This is the character which we learned back on page 152 as a primitive element of the same meaning. If we allow the full range of original meanings for the English word towel, which includes cleaning cloths, covering cloths, and strips of cloth used in clothing, we can keep the primitive meaning for the key word here. [3]
{2481}

Imagine a village market with stalls set up around persimmon tree with watermelon-sized fruit. If itan immense werent for

412a

persimmon

the fact that the tree is sacred to the village, people would get impatient as the persimmons fall from the tree and wreak havoc on buyers and sellers alike. [9]

428a
{2078}

Youa are bewitched here by a woman riding across the heavens broomstick. [7] on

bewitched

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See the note concerning the second primitive in frame 418. In Vol. 3 (page 19) it is assigned its own meaning: sapling.

428b
{2079}

For those of heaven.suffering a drought, irrigation is like water from pipes [7] On the second primitive, see the note in the previous frame.

irrigate

with the wisdom and Theofkey word in this frame has to dogo. This is what makesclar ity mind in knowing when to let the words of acquiescence sovereign. [16]

435a

{2716}

renunciation

444a
{2179}

scold

Recall some particularly harsh scolding you got as a child in school. This character has you sitting on the ground in the corner as your teacher stands over you, her mouth wide open as she reprimands you in front of the entire class. [5]

444b
{2147}

to capturing favorite Youitwill haveandimagineup in a spoon.a[4] aroma by hav ing gagged bound

aroma

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spoons on When Uncle Bob starts his comic routine of stickingwith a rea his head, you know it is about that time to come up son to excuse yourself. [11]

444c

{2791}

about that time

word refers to kanji that The key opposed to cursive writingare written in full, squared form, as which is more flowing and abbreviates some of the strokes. Here block letters are pictured as tidy rows of trees that are all the same size and can be read easily by all, whatever calligraphic skills they possess. [13]

449a

block letters

for everything its The harmony of a place the everything andall the wordsinone place is applied here to orderliness of speaks. [16]

449b

orderliness

a word taken over the Japanese to name the Kudzu is vines that creep up fromcompletely take over trees. crawling and

454a

{2398}

kudzu

Seeing it at its worst in the Georgia countryside makes it easy to understand why it has a reputation as the plague of the South. From there it should not be hard to arrange the primitives, flowers and siesta into a memorable image. [11]

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savor your words when Here youyour recent visit to aas something delicioussite. [13]you describe shrine or pilgrimage

456a

{2715}

visit a shrine

Lesson 59
The following four lessons will cover all the supplementary kanji that require primitives introduced in Part Three. As in the body of the book, stroke order has been eliminated for here on, except in cases of ambiguity.

556b

556a

{2185}

piled high sweet oak who weld windpipe selfish

Soil . . . turkey. [11]

{2505}

Tree . . . turkey. [12] Words . . . turkey. [15] Metal . . . harden. [16] Mouth . . . cause. [9] Next . . . heart. [10]
596a 583a
{2159}

556c

{2712}

580a

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Flowers . . . heart. [7]

608a 632a 632b
{2460}

600a

{2368}

wick cowardice disquieting

Flesh . . . idea. [17]

State of mind . . . tool. [11]

{2280}

Think of the state of mind you were in as a child with a particu larly juvenile yearning. [15]
644b 644a 632c

yearn

hanker
State of mind . . . scenery. [15]
{2254}

wipe

Fingers . . . style. [9]

as in opening The sense of this key word is to pull or jerk,vase. [8] a door or making ramen. Its elements: fingers . . .

yank

674a

660a

{2261}

imminent make headway

Fingers . . . flood . . . evening. [9]

{2269}

Let Yellow Pagesdo the walking as you make headway[11] your fingers in search of something hard to find. through the
[]
In the older form, the second to last strokes is omitted.

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695a

676a

{2558}

tinker with spiny

Jewel . . . two hands. [7]

{2498}

Tree rough treelate. This character refers plains. From this it gets . . . grow that grows on mountain originally to a deciduous,
the secondary sense of rugged or spiny. [11]
{2454}

732a 730a

707a

thigh lewd grab

Flesh . . . missile. [8]

{2298}

Water . . . vulture . . . porter. [11]

{2090}

Vulture . . . tree. If you are learning these supplementary characters in sequences, you may use the key word grab as a primitive element for frames 733 and 734. [8]
{2437}

739a

737a

unclear hooked metallurgy bluffs

Sun . . . love. [17]

{2148}

Bound up . . . elbow. [4]

{2137}

746a

Ice . . . pedestal. [7]

{2227}

778a

Mountain . . . cliff . . . ivy. [11]

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865a

852a

{2453}

kidney uprising

Slave . . . crotch . . . flesh. [13]

{2858}

Ifhousethink ofwe are usedato seeing the chimney (drop), then you where the ten as little cross sitting atop the root of a
you have the image of a chapel. (This combination will appear once more in this book: frame 1365.) To complete the picture for uprising, add: child . . . muscles. [9]

916a 918a

890a

{2483}

girder training numb riddle

Tree . . . going. [10]

{2088}

Wheat . . . chihuahua with one human leg . . . delicious. [15]

{2355}

[]
932a 925a

Flowers . . . committee. [11]

{2709}

Words . . . astray. [16] The older form has an extra opening stroke in the road.
{2461}

Flesh . . . tree . . . umbrella . . . rice grains. [13] K

[]
940a
{2991}

knee stationery

Bamboo . . . float. [12] The older form has two fiestas instead of the float.

Lesson 60
This lesson will pick up 30 more kanji, all requiring primitive elements from Part Three to be formed.

950a

basket
Bamboo . . . dragon. [16] posed of the elements: vase . . . flesh . . . slingshot . . . fishhook (enclosure) . . . three.
{2121}

The [] older form uses the old character for dragon, which is com-

952a

partner performing artist arrogance

Person . . . spine. [9]

{2122}

966a 979a

Person . . . branch. [6]

. . soil . . compass . You may, of Person . character. for emulate. .astaskmaster.for this kanji, course, take the the basis adding to it only the element for soil. [13]
{2058}

1015a

myself

Person . . . St. Bernard . . . eel. [10] The key word refers to a very familiar way of referring to oneself, usually restricted to men. In Vol. 3 (page 15), the combination to the right is treated as a primitive element with the meaning of a dachshund.
{2845}

1024a

sprain

Fingers . . . assembly line . . . soil. [10]

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[]
1064a 1133a 1054a 1040a

1035a

{2468}

dining tray cover over

Flesh . . . virtuous. [16]

{2358}

Flower . . . shredder. [15] The first three strokes of shredder in the old form are not drawn the way we learned they should be when the primitive for little comes above a horizontal line (see frame 105).
{2220}

buttocks hem chop off mortar

Flag . . . baseball team. [5]

{2624}

Cloak . . . reside. [13]

{2092}

Car . . . axe. [11]

{2063}

1142a

Back-to-back staples. The mortar referred to here is a stone or wooden basin used for grinding with a pestle. As a primitive element it keeps the same meaning. A reference is made to this shape on page 404. [6]

1142b

{2067}

break peel off glossary

Mortar . . . soil . . . missile. [13]

{2145}

1144a 1153a

Broom . . . rice grains . . . saber. [10]

{2997}

The primitive of this character is actually an old form of broom . The remaining elements are: crown . . . fruit. [13]

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1236a 1234a 1224a

1205a

{2917}

fist shove more and more drowning

Quarter . . . hand. [10]

{2248}

Fingers . . . elbow . . . dart. [10]

{2241}

Bow . . . reclining . . . little. [8]

{2308}

Water . (frame 707),not confuse the meaning of this key word . . weak. Do which is closer to founder. [13] with
1267a
1258a 1244a
{2795}

chin chopsticks cheek large hill

Two mouths . . . ceiling . . . snare . . . head. [18]

{2640}

Bamboo . . . puppet. [14]

{2792}

1275a 1268a

Scissors . . . head. [15]

{2928}

Maestro . . . needle. [8] This is the original character that was abbreviated to form the element we learned as pinnacle .
{2332}

Father . . metal. [10]. metal. Note the stroke overlap between father and

cauldron

1280a

{2260}

nab

Fingers . . . wooden leg. [10]

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religion. The key Wooden leg . . . left behind.[13] word refers to a trail of foot prints or tracks

1287a

trail

P
[]
1322a 1297a

1292a

{2757}

pot chink

Metal . . . jawbone. [17]

{2426}

Pinnacle . . . little . . . sun . . . little. [12] The little above the sun is drawn the same as the little below it, rather than in the form we have found it to take when it appears at above a horizontal line.
{2615}

cavern

Hole . . . yield. [13]

Lesson 61
The 29 new kanji of this lesson should not present any particular problems, as long as you are sure to look at the frames immediately preceding them in their proper context. This will also give you the change to repeat some of the imagery you used there for similar combinations of primitive elements.

be taken to The key word should elements are: mean minute, detailed, or nuanced. Its primitive thread . . . doth. [16]

1338a

fine

1339a

{2670}

come apart at the seams

Thread . . . determine. [14]

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[]
1393a

1382a

{2887}

capital suburbs modest

Two cocoons . . . field . . . fiesta. [15]

{2422}

Grandchild . . . road. [13] The older form has an extra opening stroke in the road.
{2284}

1429a 1423a 1414a

1407a

bubble up widespread marine blue hooch

Water . . . courageous. [12]

{2301}

Water . . . fingerprint. [5]

{2555}

Jewel . . . detain. [14]

{2748}

for thick, made from various This kanji is used vegetables.low-grade sakare: whisky bottle . . . kinds of grains or Its primitives glue. [10]

1477a 1455a

1452a

{2388}

lid indigo feed

Flowers . . . gone . . . dish. [13]

{2371}

Flowers . . . oversee. [18]

{2797}

Foodfor .animals.[14] of the key word here is that of bait or . . ear. The sense feed

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[]
1478a

The element for food has two horizontal lines that are drawn at an angle in the simplified form.
{2802}

rice the Japanese pound into cakes. Its Mochi is the glutinous. puzzle. [14] primitives are: food . .

mochi

[]
1488a

See the remark in the frame immediately above.

{2144}

is The key word heretreethe. .noun meaning a brief moment. Its elements: sheaf . . . . sabre. [8]
{2048}

moment

1492a

refers of This kanji jewel . to. one hatthe .seven classical stones of China. Its elements: . top . . villain . . . belt . . . elbow. [14] In Vol.3, the complex of elements to the right is introduced as a new primitive elements meaning sheik.
{2855}

crystal

1500a 1494a

1493a

bracing

The sense of the key word is of something refreshing and invigorating. It is made up of the St. Bernard and a pair of sheaves on each side.[11]
{2788}

immediate holed gem

Earthworm . . . head. [13]

a The holed gem to which this kanji refers isor flat, circular object of about a foot in length, made of stone glass and having a large hole in the middle. Its elements: ketchup . . . ball. [18]

Of thethe verbal meaningdifferent meanings ofinthis kanji, we many and widely of clasp, which fits well with its select
primitive elements: tenacious . . . hand. [15]

1506a

clasp

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1576a 1562a 1556a 1526a

1522a

{2874}

remains block up awakening bee trifle

Skeleton . . . acorn. [16]

{2214}

House . . . celery . . . animal legs . . . soil. [13]

{2750}

Whisky bottle . . . star. [16]

{2687}

Insect . . . walking legs . . . bushes. [13]

{2116}

[]

Person . . . cabbage. [12] The older form adds an extra horizontal stroke under the flowers at the top of the primitive element for cabbage.
{2165}

1588a

1582a

saliva covet wrench

Mouth . . . droop. [11]

Clock . . . shellfish. [11]

1590a
{2251}

does not the This kanji fingers . . refer to[11] tool but to the act of twisting. Its elements: . wish.

1620a

1609a

shudder
State of mind . . . chestnut. [13]
{2777}

pitch dark

Gates . . . sound. [17]

Lesson 62
With this lesson we introduce 27 characters, which brings us to the end of the supplementary kanji. There is only one case where the stroke order has been provided. Should doubts arise about the writing of any of the other kanji, a quick look at their context in the earlier lesson should clear matters up.

1707a 1687a 1686a 1685b 1685a 1676a 1668a

1639a

{2164}

throat bitter

Mouth . . . marquis. [12]

Spicy . . . bundle. [14]

{2467}

tumor carbuncle

Flesh . . . heavy. [13]

Sickness . . . piggy bank. [14]

{2577}

lose weight envy scar obvious

Sickness . . . monkey . . . crotch. [12]

{2202}

Woman . . . rapidly. [13]

{2578}

Sickness . . . silver. [11]

{2582}

Eye . . . pup tent. [17]

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1826a 1836a 1806a 1798a 1778a 1773a

1728a

{2556}

speckled defile aim at accept humbly donburi

Ball . . . plaid . . . ball. [12]

{2319}

Water . . . precious. [15]

{2344}

Pack of wild dogs . . . shelf. [8]

{2702}

Thanksgiving . . . uncommon. [17]

{2884}

Donburi is a bowl of rice with eel or meat on it. The character is a pictograph, perhaps designed by someone who felt that the portion of meat he was served with his bowl of rice looked to be no more than a tiny drop in a well. [5]
{2507}

1848a

palisade suckle

Tree . . . tome. [9]

Mouth . . . dog tag. [10]

{2960}

Sword . two . . city walls. indicate an rogative. .part of. speech, thisUsed classically tochiefly now inter character is used for its sound. [7]
{2675}

interrogative

1871a

gunwale

Boat . . . mysterious. [11]

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Tree . . . crown tied around leg of person. [8]

1889a 1892a
{2133}

1888a

{2472}

pillow nifty noodles eyebrow

Ice . . . wife. [10]

{2752}

1896a

Barley . . . mask. [16]

{2583}

The flag here has an extra vertical stroke in it. Think of it as an eyebrow pencil stuck in the eye. [9]
[]
1968a 1960a 1919a
{2569}

apprehensive go upstream

Field . . . hairpin. [9]

{2847}

Mountain goat . . . moon . . . road. [13] The older form has an extra opening stroke in the road.

take a little doing. Before we start, Learning this character will key word distinct from melancholy it is a good idea to keep the

gloom

(frame 665), with which it combines to create the psychological condition of depression (a metaphor based on the hollow or sinking of the material depression we met in frame 1424). The picture of gloom begins with a small grove of trees, under which we see a crown made out of used tin cans. Next (the lower half of the kanji) we find a combination that appears only a few times in modern characters and only once in those treated in the volumes of Remembering the Kanji. It is composed of a shovel with a sheaf dotted with small drops on all sides. Think of it as the large scoop shovel attached to the front of a bulldozer, whose driver is singing: M Bulldozing in the sheaves, bulldozing

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in the sheaves N The drops represent the chaff flying about as the sheaves are tossed about by the heavy machinery. There is someone sitting on the ground alongside, watching as the machinery makes its way around the neighboring farmlandand its you, wearing your tin-can crown. You feel overwhelmed by the impending doom as the invasion of agrobusiness draws closer and closer to the grove, the only patch of woods that remains of what was once a vast forest. The whole scene represents a re-shaping of the natural environment that brings the heavy weight of gloom down upon you. A bit much, perhaps, but there are enough elements to allow for any number of other combinations. [29]

1999a 1988a 1971a 1969a
{2742}

kick countenance insult foot of a mountain humiliate

Wooden leg . . . concerning. [19]

{2733}

Skunk . . . white . . . human legs. [14]

{2699}

Eyeball . . . team of horses. [15]

{2839}

Grove . . . deer. [19]

2040a
Wool . . sign of the cow. [11]